Any time I annoy her — usually with such heinous crimes as saying 'you need to tidy all your stuff away' — there’s a high chance we’ll find Daughter scribbling in a notebook, sketching sad faces or rain clouds, usually annotated for clarity

Most of my work has ghosts, ghouls, supernatural entities, or occasionally some sort of fantasy realm. However, I wrote something completely different for an audience of one, my seven-year-old daughter. Now it's going to be read to her class, writes David O'Mahony

Halloween presents lots of commercial opportunities — and there is massive demand for a bit of a scare 

Future generations may wonder why we collectively jumped off a virtual bridge chasing digital tulips, writes David O'Mahony

With fundamental freedoms coming under attack by an increasingly tyrannical US administration, art has never been more important, writes David O'Mahony

Robbed of his ability to walk by Parkinson's, the Black Sabbath founding member still showed hallmarks of classic Ozzy, grimacing and flashing horns at the crowd before leading them to wave along to his music

Fine, if you're unhappy about a screen adaptation of your favourite book; hate changes to the stories and characters, by all means be unhappy about it. But don’t deliberately get in the way of somebody else enjoying it

My daughter had no trouble picking up the message that being different is, in fact, good, and how important it is to use your gifts to try to make things better, even if it’s hard

When is a book not a book? According to a persistent chunk of the reading world, when it’s an audiobook apparently.

What function does a letter have in today's world?